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Terms for subject Military (71894 entries)

Hold The Horse	HTH
holder	hldr
holder	hlr
holding area	Waiting area, usually indicated by road signs and under surveillance, where troops are stationed waiting for the order to resume their movement.
holding attack	An attack designed to hold the enemy in position, to deceive him as to where the main attack is being made, to prevent him from reinforcing the elements opposing the main attack and/or to cause him to commit his reserves prematurely at an indecisive location.
holding attack	An attack designed to hold the enemy in position, to deceive him as to where the main attack is being made, to prevent him from reinforcing the elements opposing the main attack and/or to cause him to commit his reserves prematurely at an indecisive location
holding line	In retrograde river-crossing operations, the outer limit of the area established between the enemy and the water obstacle to preclude direct and observed indirect fires into crossing areas.
holding position	Place where a unit or weapon is stationed before its employment, transport or setting up.
holding yard	A designated area within a military installation where trucks or railwagons or cars loaded with explosives are held for interim periods prior to storage or shipment
HOLF	helicopter outlying field
Holloman Air Development Center	HADC
Holloman Air Force Base	HAFB
hollow charge	A shaped charge producing a deep cylindrical hole of relatively small diameter in the direction of its axis of rotation.
hollow space	Feature of a maneuver area in which the areas of responsibility of the subordinate units are separated and/or include spaces devoid of forces, which creates both control problems in the "void" spaces and maneuver.
HOM	Head of Media
HOM	Head of Mission
HOM	high orbit mission
Home Defense	HD
Home Station	HS
Home Station Operations Center	HSOC